Bake pan



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LLOYD B. HUTH AND DAVID E. AHLERS, 0F GARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO EMMETT R. WOODS, OF CARLISLE, IPENNSYLVANIA.

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Application filed September 11, 1923. Serial 1104662,!17.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LLOYD R. HUTH and DAVID E. AHLERS. citizens of the United States, residing at Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bake Pans, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to baking pans and hasfor an object to provide a baking pan having new and improved features and means for the baking of a loaf in the form of a cup or hollow container of leavened dough or batter, providing a special means for caring for the excess. which runs over from the chamber filled by the expansion of such leavened mass.

A further object of the invention is'to provide improved means facilitating the removal of the excess mass which runs over from the filled and completed form without breaking the loaf itself.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain novel parts, elements, units, combinations, arrangements,

interactions and functions, as disclosed in the drawings together with mechanical and functional equivalents thereof, as will be hereinafter more claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a top plan view of the bake pan.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the pan taken on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure; 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a' view partly in side elevation and partly in section ofone of the ends of the core of the pan removed.

Fi re 5 is a view in perspective of the bake loaf.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The present invention is intended especially for baking a loaf of leavened dough or batter in the form of a hollow receptacle which is later to be filled with some material and eaten as an entirety. It is well known that in the vending of such materials as ice cream, containers are now provided which are eaten with the confection or forming in fact a part of the confection. As at present practiced, however, these containers are fully described and comprises a plurality of pan units 10 which are connected together 1n any usual and ordinary manner, as by a plate-like member 11 to which all of said units are attached by any usual and ordinary means and, when so constructed, resembles in its general appearance the pan at present known as a gem pan, or the like.

The pan, however, comprises in addition to the pan plate 11 an up-turned marginal flange 12 entirely around the margin of the plate'll for a purpose which will be more clearly understood by the hereinafter explanation of the functioning of the device.

Co-acting with the pan composed of the units 10 and plate 11 is a second structure composed of a like'number of units 13 corresponding generally in shape to the pans 10. These several units 13 are secured together in any approved manner with a marthat the units 13 are spaced away from the units 10 forming an'interval 15 which will be filled with dough, batter or other material to be baked into a loaf, as indicated at 16.

As hereinbefore explained, it is the object of the present invention to employ a leavened dough, batter or the like which in the heating will expand and, to insure the 001m plete filling of the mold, a quantity will run over, as indicated at 17 in Figure 3. This run-over part will form an irregularflange about the'edge of the completed loaf which must be broken away and for this purpose the edge of the unit 13 is turned down and serrated as indicated at 18, so that the run over part of the material will exude between these serrations and, when baked, will provide a perforation by reason of the inserted points of the serration. This will produce a loaf, as indicated at 19 in Figure 5, the parts 20 indicating the portions from which the run over part has been broken, the parts 21 indicating those portions into which the serrations 18 were impaled fn the baking. This will insure the making of a uniform cupsha ed loaf and the breakingof the run over at t e edges, as indicated at Figure 5, will produce a fanciful design about the upper margin of the loaf.

To insure the proper positioning of the upper and lower units, clamps 22 are provided pivoted to one member as the upper member at .23 to swin outwardl to the position at 22, as indicated, at F iqure 1, to release the organizations from each other, whereby the upper or anization may be removed from the bake loaves contained and remaining in the lower or anization, which may then be inverted an the contents of the unit pans l0 discharged.

What we claim to be new is:

1. A bake pan comprising a hollow re- 25 ceptacle having an outwardly extending, up-

wardly turned flange, and an inner core member spaced from the first mentioned container having a downwardly extending serrated mar inal edge.

2. A ba e pan comprising a. receptacle havin outwardly extending, upwardly turne surrounding chamber, a core member having means for resting upon the upturned portion to space the core member uniformly away from the receptacle, and downwardly extending marginal means carried by the core member for producing perforations in the marginal portions of the baked loaf.

3. A bake pan comprising a receptacle and spaced core units, means carried by the receptacle for retaining run over portions from the interval between the units and the receptacle, and means carried by the core units for producing perforations in said run over portion. 7

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures.

LLOYD R. HUTH. DAVID E. AHLERS. 

